At the 2016 Commission in Birmingham, I reported on a Quality Music Education Framework that Dr Emily Wilson and I had developed for the Victorian Department of Education, which was to become a framework for the delivery of "quality" music education across the State of Victoria for the school years, Foundation to Year 10. In this address I review the outcomes of this framework, which was launched in 2018, against a more recent music policy development -- a curriculum for the senior years of high school for implementation in 2023 that is assessed by a high stakes external examination. These developments highlight for me enduring questions about how and why archaic teaching practices continue to flourish, and who holds the real power for positive change?